On Fri, 5 May 2000 20:04:32 +0200, Ivo van Heel wrote:

>> Computational speed, and cache size seem to be the most important
>> factors.  But anything you buy today will have no problem encoding
>> (even with "lame -h") at faster than real time.  
>> My 600mhz athalon is about 5x.
>
>It seems strange that my old Pentium 133MHz (hey, it's the best I've got at
>the moment *smiles weakly*) does so bad a job, taking up hours and hours for
>one album. I'd say it does about 0.3x with lame, but I've heard people say
>their Pentium II 200MHz does realtime?

My cyrix 686MX 266 has about the same performance.  Which is why I
was checking..  Looks like I am going to get a 340 or 400 K6-II or
III with 3D Now.  Didn't someone mention that 3D now support was in
the future?




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